Synonyms for the breaking point
the break·ing point

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1. the straw that broke the camels back

   the breaking point means the most recent scenario (typically negative) results from many previous ones. depending upon the context, of course, this synonymous phrase is often alongside mental health matters including mental breakdowns, emotional collapse, implying psychiatric overload and even suicide.

   after winters of seemingly constant snowfall, one storm after another, the cabin roof reached its breaking point and collapsed.

   Submitted by JP03 on July 6, 2015  

Suggested Resources

1. the breaking point

   Read the full text of the The Breaking Point poem by Stephen Vincent Benet on the Poetry.com website.

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1. El Hillo:

   So it is safe to assume that more people will be heading to Europe, and rightly so, because the countries that have so generously been hosting these refugees – Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt - are also reaching  - in the case of some of them - a breaking point.

2. James Boulware:

   Everyone of us has a breaking point. ... He hit his.

3. Eric Adams:

   With more than 41,000 asylum-seekers arriving in New York City since last spring and nearly 28,000 asylum-seekers currently in our care, our city is at its breaking point.

4. Omar Mahmood:

   I expected backlash, but this is something else, last night I pretty much had a breakdown. I can’t take my final exams -- that has been postponed to next year. And I hate to be dramatic, but this is almost at a breaking point, where this has been going on for a month and I have not been able to focus on things.

5. Janet Coffman:

   Definitely some hospitals, particularly in the Los Angeles area, were at the breaking point, but we did not see that much use of the alternate care sites relative to what was contemplated, as dire as the situation was in the winter, it could have been even worse.